It is estimated that between 1890 and 1925, an African American was lynched every two and a half days. ... The month of February is significant and recognized in African American history for the birthdays of great African American pioneers and institutions. ... During his term, Bruce fought for the rights of minority groups, including African-Americans, Native Americans, and Asian immigrants. ... (November 22, 1942-) was the first African-American in space. ... Douglass was the first African-American citizen appointed to high ranks in the U.S. government. ...

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Presently many African-Americans, who are descendents of African slaves, are asking for reparations from the United States government. ... The majority of people who want reparations are obviously African-Americans. ... The African Reparation Movement (ARM) claims that African Americans want six things out of reparations. ... Although, sadly, African- Americans still don't have the same respect as other races in the US, African-Americans today to not have nearly as many struggles as slaves did. ... Why then should African-Americans receive money for struggles they have never faced? ...

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Then why in its history of the United States have slaves, partially a large amount of African Americans? ... One of the major reasons for having African slave labor was to boost the American economy. ... Another reason that enslaved Africans were used because they were much preferred over Native Americans and indentured servants. ... Since so many enslaved Africans were being brought in America, the individuals who brought them their made such large profits that they would go back to Africa and get another load to sell. ... African Americans were sadly isolated from the white society. ...

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Just to name a few, the parents are similar to the white people who did not like the African Americans and the teenagers dancing represented the African Americans who wanted equal rights. ... The teenagers and the African Americans also relate. ... The African Americans wanted to have the same rights as the white people. ... He was the leader of the African Americans. ... In restaurants there was a separate room in the back for African Americans. ...

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The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. Both, the African Americans and Native Americans were challenged by the hardships of the whites throughout the midst of the eighteenth century. African Americans were found mainly in the North and South, while Native Americans were sprinkled all over the United States. ... There was not one single kind of Native American, but many. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to l...

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Equality for All Since the birth of the United States, African-Americans have continued the fight for equality in America. ... A prominent court case in moving African-Americans toward equality in was Brown v. ... This march was organized to protest the denial of the African-Americans right to vote. King's actions played a major role in bringing equality to the African-American community. ... This success for the African-American community was a result of many years of hard work and determination by not only Martin Luther King, Jr., but all African-Americans. ...

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Of these groups, the people that fought hardest for rights were women, Native Americans, and African Americans, though women received a few basic rights, Native Americans were driven off of their land, and most African Americans were still abused as slaves. ... The last group greatly affected by a culture of white, male power was African Americans. ... There were a few free African Americans who fought for the freedom of their people their entire adult lives. In the North, free African Americans and a few choice servants were allowed to learn, something that never took place before the Revolut...

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She was just one American who demonstrated her rights. ... You had African American people going to one school and White people going to another. You also had many white people showing ownership of African Americans and making them slaves. ... Kennedy to send congress a bill on June 19, 1963 offering legal protection to African Americans and also offering them the same rights white Americans did. ... That is what it is to be an American. ...

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Since the beginning of the United States of America, there have been problems with who is better than the rest. ... The heaviest burdens of racism in the country have fallen on Native Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, Latin Americans, and many other immigrant groups and their descendants. ... When this law was passed not only did it affect African Americans but it shook the whole nation. ... Bitter people who believed that the Civil Rights Act was a mistake have taught their sons and daughters to hate African Americans and anyone that does not look like them. ... "Rather than...

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As of right now America is populated with minorities from different racial and ethnic backgrounds such as Asians, Africans, Latinos, and Native Americans, all of which are known as minorities. ... Africans were brought to America against their own will; they were forced here by Euro- Americans in order to be their slaves. ... Although those of Asian or Latino descent were not forced to enter into the United States, in some ways their experiences were parallel with those of African and Native American descent. ... Africans were enslaved and forced to work for no money at all. ... It wasn'...

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Racism occurs daily in America. ... (Also, 77 percent of regular marijuana users are white, while one in six is African-American.) ... Knowing that, why are the minorities (African Americans) being pulled over more that white people due to racial profiling. ... On the news we see distraught African Americans deliberately depicted acting in mayhem. It is a known fact than more that half of African Americans viewed on the news are depicted in a negative case. ...

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African American females are unique human beings. ... The first African American Woman I want to discuss is Phillis Wheatley born in Gambia, Africa in 1753. ... The Second African American Woman I want to discuss is Bridget ("Biddy") Mason (1818-1891) was born a slave on a Mississippi plantation. ... In 1872, she and her son-in-law, Charles Owens, founded and financed the First African Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, the city's first African-American church. ... Another source said she was part Chippewa Indian, part African-American, and an orphan. ...

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These amendments were created to aid the four million African Americans in there new role as freed men. ... Now that African Americans were now free citizens of the United States they needed to find a place to live and have lives of there own. ... The court decided that the three men who massacred almost 300 African Americans who were defending a local courthouse were innocent. ... Now that African Americans were able to vote, many people saw this as a high threat. ... Most African Americans did not know who to read or write. ...

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A system was generated in which goods and people, including slaves were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Colonies in North America called the Triangular Trade. ... Colonist used Indians and indentured servants to do hard labor for them, The Native Americans were known to escape easily and the prices kept rising for Indentured servants due to these crisis they turned to Africans for cheap labor. ... As slaves were transported to America they were unsuspected of what was to happen to them. ... Africans were terrified, depressed and sadden by their entrap...

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Throughout the film, both the Americans and the Africans are frustrated as they cannot understand each other. ... The hard task was convincing the judge that they slaves were indeed born free in Africa. He does so, and the Africans are granted passage back to Africa, and the remaining crew of La Amistad is arrested for illegally obtaining slaves. ... With Adams" help, they are able to convince the Supreme Court to let the Africans go free or return to Africa if they so choose. ... Only because of the color of their skin did the Europeans and early Americans think it was right to treat Af...

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Americans have been envied since they have evolved. ... That's why Americans comes in different colors. ... Americans has a reputation of being lazy and rude. ... In his essay "What is an American" he states that all Americans are of European descent and that people who comes to America lives a better life. Those statements are incorrect because people from all over the world has come to America such as Africans, Asians, Mexicans, etc. ...

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African Americans were facing very harsh discrimination against them by white Americans. African Americans faced many hardships and were mistreated very poorly. Even earlier in history look at Native Americans. ... Well, times have changed a lot since those days, and Americans are trying to give back to the Native Americans and African Americans were given rights as individuals and are not treated like they are not human anymore. ... In American culture we believe in freedom and individuals rights. ...

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There I was, lying in bed, surrounded by darkness. I start to feel weightless, like I was floating. I open my eyes. I sense something is different but I can't see anything, everything is dark. I can feel myself getting out of the bed and walking to what I think is my bedroom door. I open it and noth...

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For example, before, you could rarely find a family of African-American people living in the same neighborhood with white people, or using the same public service, as well as going to the same restaurant. ... With the employment, the number of colored people working for American's company has increased to rival the number of American workers. ... Diversity has brought everybody together, African with American, European with Asian, Indian with Australian, etc. ... America should keep what it have been doing all this time, or even make it better, like encourage people from poor countries ...

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Africans had no freedom and the economy was dependent upon slavery. With slavery being the main economic factor in the colonies the Africans could have rebelled by themselves with the growing number of them entering America at this time. ... Ideas about American rights came after the stamp act was imposed. ... The people started thinking of themselves as Americans and not Europeans. ... With more and more people coming to America there was bound to be new ideas on how things should be. ...

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WHAT WAS AND IS THE IMPACT OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. ... The African slave trades come to be an important part in the colonial period. ... Because of this European used African Americans like they were part of the land, a property that 5 Was there to produce goods, being it for Europe, or later on for the independent nation. ... When African Americas finally achieve freedom , they have it worse of all , although they are free , they still are giving poor jobs , with no or little pay , worst of all they are still being discriminated against just because of the color of their skin. ....

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America is still facing uncovering problems within the 20th century. ... There where problems in the society; women, African-Americans, and families faced through a lot of difficulties getting where there striving to be at, which became apart of history. ... While other women finding ways to be heard, African-Americans women are forced but no choice to be the housemaids. ... Children African-Americans played an important part in American history. ... " The whites are the victims of murdering unarmed African-Americans. ...

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American literature as know it has come along way. ... Also many events have led to the literature as we know it also, like women's suffrage and emancipation for African Americans as well as many wars that have been fought in the history of the United States. ... Also around this time African American were also gaining some new found rights and freedoms. ... Beginning with the civil war and ending with the first war in Iraq the people of the America have experienced many changes of thought and expression. ... Some even gave people in America sort of an optimistic outlook for the futu...

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What is an American? ... You ask what an American is? ... America is one big mixture of Asians, Hispanics, Africans and Europeans that come all together and become one strong nation. ... As you see America cares about its people, America looks after everyone and leaves no one behind. ... So what exactly is an American? ...

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Imperialism occurred throughout Africa, china, Latin America, and India. Cultural beliefs were a large impact of the imperialism of India and Latin America. ... The Spanish American War was a 5-month war dealing with Cuba. ... There was and industrial impact on Africa. ... Consequently, European industries were dependent on raw materials from Asia, Americas, and Africa. ...

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